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Two Unions Lose Rights To Exclusive Bargaining Suffolk Downs Wins Superior Court Suit and 7,795 Damages BOSTON, Mass., May 10. — In a ruling handed down by Superior Court Judge Charles Fairhurst Wednesday, two unions were stripped of their exclusive bargaining rights at Suffolk Downs and ordered to pay the track 7,795, plus interest, from October 3, 1955. The ruling was against the Building, Service Employees International union for picketing the track that day and against the teamsters Local 25, for aiding them. The picketing forced the track to postpone the October 3 meeting for one day. Suffolk brought suit asking the court to set aside an agreement to recognize the unions. The track charged the agreement had been signed on a misrepresentation that the unions represented a large number of track employes. In a 22-page decision Judge Fairhurst said the representations by union organizations that they represented a substantial number of Suffolk Downs employes were "in fact, untrue." The judge ordered vacated the agreement between the unions and the track signed last October. Under the settlement the track agreed to recognize the unions as exclusive bargaining agents for unorganized track workers.
